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Criterion
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric
Architecture Inception Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Inception Canvas
Purposedifferent
ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs.The Architecture Inception Canvas bundles the first architecture questions into a compact decision picture. It fits when an initiative is still in motion but still needs clear guardrails.
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Timedifferent
2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additionalHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen90-180 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
Designers, developers as users, and facilitation4-123-63-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapGQM Table, Metric ProfilesInception Canvas, Risks, Goal List, Open Questions
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ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
StrategyMetricsExecution
MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment
AlignmentArchitectureCanvas
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